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I just came across a consise summary of the House Ways and Means Health Care Reform bill. I encourage you to read and consider how a bill such as this may impact health care overall, and mental health care specifically. What opportunities might health care reform bring to your private practice? I suggest we pay [...]

  New Class Will Start January 2010! Register for my free report or my mailing list if you want to be notified of open registration for the next session.   Dear Fellow Therapist, Are you newly licensed, working for a group, hospital, or school and looking to start your own private practice? Have you always [...]

I've put together a video on the 3 Foundations of Private Practice Success.  I've included a lot of business information that we never learned in our professional training.Here are the 3 building blocks to start, or grow, your practice.  Take a few minutes to view, take notes and give me your feedback!   Click here for [...]

If you utilize a medical model for your therapeutic work, treat anxiety, depression, ADHD, or other diagnoses with a physiological basis your practice will be full to brimming if you make a connection with a few local physicians who refer to you regularly. I have a wonderful referral relationship with several well known neurologists in [...]

I have a collegue who is an excellent clinician. He is great with kids, parents feel comfortable with him and I trust his diagnositic skills implicitly.  Unfortunately, I may need to stop referring clients to his practice. The reason? I am getting many complaints from people that he does not return calls or emails and [...]

I just read a great post by Philippa Kenneally of the Entrepreneurial MD for a MD's perspective on healthcare reform and the business of medicine. I suggest mental health professionals give it a read.  We're all in this together and we need to pull together to re-energize all health care providers so we can promote [...]

As you may know, most businesses now utilize the internet to market and promote products and services.  But can your private practice benefit from internet marketing? I say, "yes," private practices can benefit from having an internet presence.  Even if you do not  have a product to sell, your potential clients are looking for mental [...]

Just the facts as I see them:   1.  Private Practice is a business 2.  Dealing with managed care organizations is difficult, time consuming and frustrating. 3.  Being an excellent clinician is not enough. 4.  You need adminstrative support if you hope to make a decent living. 5.  It will be easier to grow a [...]

Many psychotherapists work with clients to help them understand and accept personal responsibility for their actions, behaviors and thoughts.  This is the existential crux of much of our work: personal responsibility is a worthwhile, necessary goal for people to feel empowered and be the source of their own success (however they define that term). But [...]